ORGANISER Easyfairs has unveiled its most ‘exciting and diverse’ speaker line-up to date for London Packaging Week.
5,000 attendees are expected at the ExCeL centre from September 21-22 for the event.
“Whether you’re a seasoned packaging professional, an aspiring designer, or simply someone passionate about sustainable solutions, London Packaging Week is the event you won’t want to miss,” said community & content manager Parisa Maleki. “From design agencies, brand headliners, and entrepreneurs, to workshops with authors and addresses from key industry experts and associations, this year’s free-to-attend talks are set to be bigger than ever.”
On day one, Mulberry founder Roger Saul will be on the show’s Luxury Stage with his talk titled ‘From one bag to another – a British icon’s journey from luxury handbags to a luxury farm’.
Fable & Mane co-founder and CEO Akash Mehta will take to the Beauty Stage to explain why ‘mindful business’ is crucial to the future of the industry, while Justin Hutton-Penman, head of product innovation at The Macallan, will discuss the role creativity plays in the drinks industry and capturing the spirit behind the whisky, also on the Luxury Stage.
Entrepreneurs Marisa Poster and Teddie Levenfiche, who created Europe’s first matcha green tea-powered energy drink, shot to fame when they won the backing of Dragons’ Den duo Peter Jones and Stephen Bartlett. They will talk about how they changed the beverage game in their ‘Game, Set and Matcha!’ talk on the Food Stage.
On day two, wellbeing expert Liz Earle MBE will headline the Drinks & Beauty stage, explaining how she turned her mail-order beauty company into a major success story. Meanwhile, Jamie Laing and Ed Williams will step onto the Food Stage for a ‘Meet the Founders’ interview, discussing their success with fast-growing sweet brand, Candy Kittens.
Elsewhere, Jo Stephenson, MD of PR firm PHD Marketing, will quiz Nestle, WRAP and Plastic Bank representatives on a revamp of the event’s usual panel session, ‘The Big Debate’ in a session called The Big Question.
